SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Bryan. If you wouldn’t mind, please tell us a little bit about your background and your role at HP.
Bryan Coapstick: As the Director of Mobile Innovation, I am responsible for ensuring that HP’s mobility initiatives successfully help enterprises improve communications and interactions with customers, employees, constituents and partners to ensure they have the data they need, when they need it, and in a format that is easy to interact with and consume. Additionally, I serve as the industry chair for the Advanced Mobility Working group for the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council (ACT/IAC), whose mission is to “foster collaboration and communication on issues regarding mobile computing in the Federal Government, including citizen services, remote connectivity, employee services, workforce productivity, digital publishing, and enterprise mobility.”
Prior to joining HP, I spent nearly two decades in both the public and private sectors, focused on emerging technologies and the critical intersections between business strategy and technology. I’ve worked with several Fortune 200 companies to increase their market presence and effectively leverage their mobile and digital channels. Additionally, I have built interactive teams, worked to guide digital mobile strategies, and led an Innovation Lab focused on accelerating digital interaction models, the convergence of big data analytics with context aware applications, and emerging mobile payments and transaction capabilities.
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Five Hot Healthcare Innovations in 2013 and a Few to Look Out for in 2014
The ability to provide fast and accurate healthcare has always depended on having the latest technology and educating the relevant staff on how to best employ these new devices and applications. Throughout 2013, a number of innovations appeared in the industry, changing the way healthcare we administer and receive care.
New technologies have the potential to disrupt the traditional, slow, and ineffective processes that are often ingrained in the healthcare system. They have the potential to offer more security to meet stringent compliance requirements, streamline distribution, and get more consistency throughout a range of services. This year has seen some new technologies and trends that are having a real impact on the industry.
Your Cloud Availability: 98%, 99.99% or 99.9999%?
We discussed my belief that the nines (99.99…%) are more marketing than the real deal today – What do you think? The market and tools used to measure your uptime immature or do not really exist. The concept of availability in the cloud is determined by the level of responsibility and liability that the vendors have for their customers. These notions include the ability to monitor, proactively fix and maintain continuous communication with users, giving them clear and genuine visibility into what exactly is going on and when the system is expected to return to normal. It is also necessary, here, to define the concept of downtime. At a very basic level, it is when the system is not available. However, the more precise answer depends on the criticality of specific features and components of an application or service.
On that note, we are interested in hearing your point of view. First and foremost, it is essential to ask, what do you consider “downtime”? How do you approach the matter of downtime with your customers? How do you compensate, if at all? Maybe even before discussing compensation, let us ask how or if you measure downtime? If so, are you able to calculate your own availability over the past week, month, or year? With your help, we can gain even greater insights on the topic.
Cloud Shifts the Burden of Security to Development
Explores three ways to help development teams bear the burden of security: use pen test results to harden the application, leverage service virtualization for security scenarios, & adopt policy-driven development to help engineers understand and satisfy management’s security expectations.
The move to the cloud brings a number of new security challenges, but the application remains your last line of defense. Engineers are extremely well poised to perform tasks critical for securing the application-provided that certain key obstacles are overcome.
SAP Releases New SAP Business ByDesign Solution
SAP AG on Wednesday announced new capabilities for the SAP Business ByDesign® solution, reaffirming its commitment to provide independent companies and subsidiaries worldwide a flexible, cost-effective mid-market cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. The updates leverage SAP HANA®, mobile and cloud technology, and enable businesses to rapidly adapt processes to capitalize on ever-changing market dynamics.
“We continue to honor our commitment to SAP Business ByDesign customers and leverage the strength of the SAP Cloud portfolio and SAP HANA to deliver innovations that help them run efficiently and effectively their entire business in the cloud,” said David Sweetman, senior director, Global Product Marketing, SAP Business ByDesign. “The new capabilities in the latest release help companies manage more data and transactions in more places with greater speed and simplicity.”
Three Ways to Sell Desktop-as-a-Service
Cloud service providers are up against several key challenges when it comes to selling desktop virtualization technology. An understanding of the benefits of desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) rarely exists, and licensing concerns – and their rising costs – are not going away any time soon. Knowing the do’s and don’t of selling desktop-as-a-service before diving in can solve problems on the front end while ensuring adoption of DaaS occurs in companies of all shapes and sizes.
1. Turn IT administrators into allies, not opponents.
Among the myriad reasons enterprises cite for turning to desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) technology, a few prove instrumental in driving its adoption. When evaluating the decision drivers behind DaaS, it is important to consider what the actual motivators behind a switch away from traditional desktop computing may be, and who it is that must be properly motivated. While some of the most progressive executives of small and mid-sized businesses may themselves be the driving force behind such a switch, it is worth noting that these are not typically the individuals interacting with DaaS providers. On the other hand, those who head the IT department of a company have many potential motivators for spearheading a switch from traditional compute to virtualized hosted Windows desktops. The time, energy and frustration DaaS can spare those who actually administer end-user compute for organizations with dozens – or hundreds – of desktops can be significant. If these individuals are sufficiently aware of the benefits they stand to accrue through a switch to more efficient DaaS technology, it follows intuitively that such heads of IT organizations would be among the strongest advocates for such a shift.
VaultLogix Invests in Customers by Partnering with EMC
VaultLogix on Wednesday announced that it has purchased and is implementing EMC’s Isilon NAS scale-out storage products to ensure that its services for customers are the fastest, most reliable, and secure in the industry.
EMC’s Isilon offers massive scalability with the world’s fastest performing NAS. In addition it provides resilient data protection for a highly available environment and robust security and data encryption options.
VaultLogix will be using Isilon as part of its services that help clients receive:
Fully automated backup solutions that move data to an offsite data center for rapid file restoration.
New BMC Marketplace Accelerates Enterprise App Revolution
BMC Software on Tuesday introduced BMC Marketplace, a cloud-based app store for companies who want to deploy their own “Amazon-like” branded marketplace to market and sell private-label mobile, cloud, custom and desktop applications – twice as fast as any custom alternative.
App stores are very well known in the consumer world, and now their popularity is rapidly increasing in enterprise environments. Gartner recently predicted that 25 percent of large companies will deploy an enterprise app store by 2017, partially in response to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement that is sweeping the workplace.
How to Put Your Storage Cloud to Work
Cloud storage has become the preferred choice for those who want the best. The storage area is limitless and the security that it provides is the best in the market. However, that is not the reason why businesses use cloud storage. More and more people are turning to cloud storage as it offers flexibility and meets the constantly changing demands of businesses all over. Of course, the fact that it is extremely economical and easy to use is also a decisive factor. Perhaps that is why even individuals are turning to cloud storage and are finding innovative uses for cloud storage.
As a cloud can store endless amounts of data, people are using it for their personal uses and are backing up personal memories like photos, videos, voice recordings and even family histories. Millions are finding cloud storage a boon for storing all their email attachments and while free plans also offer a vast amount of features, people are willing to pay for paid storages just to keep their data safe in addition to getting customized storages. For professionals who need to organize and store their data for research, surveys and calculations, this is the perfect solution.
Red Hat Pathway to IT Modernization
Over time, every IT portfolio gets bogged down in the chaos of servers, platforms, and software that make up the current IT landscape. Legacy systems, disparate architectures, and aging technologies slowly eat away at returns, reduce your ability to respond to shifting demands, and limit how quickly you can scale to meet new market opportunities. IT modernization lets you reboot your portfolio for greater agility, reduced cost, and operational excellence. This frees up your time and money to focus on innovation, not implementation.